Combined car door and partition.



R. E. MOORE.

COMBINED OAR DOOR AND PARTITION.V APPLICATION HLBD MAY 26, 1913. 1,085,753. Patented Feb. 3, 1914 2 SHEETS-snm 1.

Re E. MOORE. COMBINED GAB DOOR AND PARTITION.

APPLICATION FILED MAY ze, 1913.

1,085,753. Patented Fens, 1914.

2 SHEETS-SHEBT 2.

,Zyaaf- UNTTED sTATEs PATENT. oFFTca-w ROBERT E. Moena, or sT. Louis-chown, 'mssoumg v COMBINED can. noon 'Ann reunion.

To all 'whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, ROBERT E. MooRE, a citizen of the United States, and resident of St. Louis county, Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements 1n `Combined Car Doors and Partitions, of

which the following is a specification containing afull, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention relates to improvements in combined car doors and partitions, and the objectof my invention is to construct an inner car door of such dimensions as to be employed either as a door or ay cross partition, and to provide an overhead carrying means for the door and also to arrange a simple means for locking the door in either position.

Vith the above purposes in vlew my invention consists in certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter described, pointed out in the claims and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a simple section of a grain car equipped with a door constructed according to my invention; Fig..2 is an enlarged transverse sectional elevation of a car showing my improved door employed as a cross partition; Fig. 3 is a sectional plan of a fragment of a car showing two of my improved doors employed as inner car doors; and Fig. et is a fragmental inside elevation showing the means for holding the door when employed as an inner car door.

-An ordinary grain or box car is usually provided with two side door openings a'nd I contemplate employing two inner doors of identical construction, hence I will limit my description to a single door.

In the drawings the numeral 5 designates an overhead track which extends from a point midway over the car door opening to the end of the car and is hung intermediate its ends by the hangers 6 which are preferably secured to the ridge pole of the car. Arranged for travel on the track 5 is a trolley 7 and suspended from the trolley is a bar 8 the body of which is preferably noncircular. The upper end of the bar is reduced and threaded and the threaded end is inserted through the opening in the lower end of the trolley 7, and a nut 9 secures the Specification of Letters ateiit. Application fue@ my 2e, 19,13.v set-141m?, 170,

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barto the. trolley in such' manner as `to ermit of the bar turning relative to the trollley.

The numeral l0 designates the combined innerdoor and partition which is constructed` identically like the common inner grain door, except for width it being necessary that the door be as wide as the car. Secured ,to the door is a vertically arranged channeliro-n 11 which embraces the lower end of the noncircular bar 8. Carried by the bar, above the' channel-iron 11, is a slide-bolt l2 and secured to the bar 8 is a pair of pins 13, the lowermost one of which provides means 1n conjunction with the slide-bolt l2 for holding the door against vertical movement andthe uppermost pin 13 provides means in conjunction with the slide-bolt- 12 for holding the door in an elevated position for carrying from one point to another in the car. Adjacent each corner of the door 10 there 1s a bar 14, each of which projects beyond the side margins of the door. Secured to the inside faces of the sides of the car are the notched rails 15 and 16, which in conjunction with the bars 14 provide means for holding the door as a partition at any desired point lengthwise of the car. The ends of each of the rails 15 and 16 next adjacent the door openings are bent to form hooks- 17 which in conjunction with the bars 14 provide means for holding the car door, when employedl as an inner door, in place.

It will be observed that by the provision of an inner car door of a width equal to the width of a car (inside dimensions) 'the same door may be employed either as a door or a cross partit-ion, and by the provision of the notched rails 15 and 16 the hooks 17 on the rails and the bars 14 carried by the doors, the door and car are provided with doorsecuring means, so as to eliminate all nailing.

By the arrangement of the trolley and overhead track a very simple means is provided for the carrying of the door from one position'to another, so that a single operator car and the door for holding'the door in por bar having a swivel connection with the trolsition over a door opening or crosswise of` ley, and means for vertically' adjustably sethe car to be employed as a partition, an curing the door to the bar. overhead track secured in the car, and a ln testimony whereof, have signed my 15 trolley device secured to the door for carryname to this specification, in presence of two ing the door to diierentpoints wit-hin the subscribing Witnesses.

Car. 1 r n 3. ln combination with a car, an overhead RBLRI L MOORE track Within the car and a pair of notched `i/Vtnesses:

' rails secured Within the car, a door, a trolley E. L. WALLACE,

arranged for travel on the overhead track, a l N. G. BUTLER. 

